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Example sentences for "movables"

Lexicographically close words:
moutons; mouty; mouvement; mouvements; movable; move; moveable; moveables; moved; moveless
  1. In 1482 the tax on movables and professions (Arbitrio) was reintroduced.

  2. A particular care must be taken for the movables settled in the house.

  3. Gemmellaro for the expense of movables and for the advantages travellers may get to examine the Volcan.

  4. Under the Breton laws execution for crime entailed confiscation of movables to the seigneur justicier, but not of the landed estates.

  5. The Templar movables were divided between the pope and king, and the landed possessions were made over to the Hospital.

  6. Mrs. Golding's suspicions against Anne Robinson now gaining ground, she dismissed her maid, and the hubbub among her movables ceased at once and for ever.

  7. How little he feared the priesthood he showed when the clergy refused his demand of a thirteenth of movables from the whole country and Archbishop Geoffry of York resisted the tax before the Council.

  8. In those paroxysms he did not walk, but sprung from place to place like a grasshopper, with unlooked--for agility, avoiding the chairs and tables and other movables with great dexterity.

  9. Movables of every kind lay strewn about, without the least attempt at order, and were intermixed with boxes, hampers, and all sorts of lumber.

  10. And, look when I am King, claim thou of me The earldom of Hereford and all the movables Whereof the King my brother was possess'd.

  11. The former, collecting a large army, penetrated to the Conway River, behind which, in the mountains of Snowdonia, Llewelyn with all his people and all his movables defied attack.

  12. As usual, the Welsh with their stock and movables had slipped over the river into the impregnable wilds of Snowdonia, and the King returned as he went, burning St. Asaph's Cathedral on his march.

  13. We have fooled away house and lands; our movables shall not follow them.

  14. It is only as Commandant Raynal's agent I presume to address so distinguished a lady: in that character I must inform you that whatever movables you have removed are yours: those we find in the house on entering we keep.

  15. It is not implied in a policy on goods or movables that these goods, &c.

  16. According to natural law the goods of one who died without heirs may be occupied; but under the civil law they usually devolve to the State, whether they be movables or immovables.

  17. This embraces those movables which an owner has recently parted with, through accident or forgetfulness, without any intention of giving up his ownership of them, and which are now easily findable, although their owner is not known.

  18. This is a deposit of precious movables hidden away so long ago that it is impossible to discover the owner.

  19. As to private property of enemy subjects on land, international law requires that immovables generally be respected, and movables can be seized only for some necessary purpose of war.

  20. The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.

  21. Cornelia then sent to the city for her most valuable movables and her servants.

  22. In the former reign, the taxes had been partly scutages, partly such a proportional part of the movables as was granted by parliament; in this, scutages were entirely dropped, and the assessment on movables was the chief method of taxation.

  23. He held a Parliament at Edmondsbury in 1296, and demanded a fifth of the movables of the clergy They refused.

  24. They had embarked their women, their riches, all their movables that were of any value and small in bulk, and had sent this valuable cargo to the island of Taroga.

  25. Their design was to leave the pirates neither movables nor utensils; in fact, this was the only resource left them by which they could reduce those formidable guests to such a state of privation as to compel them to retire.

  26. The house is cleared of all its movables till evening, when the smell of the corpse has passed away.

  27. They confiscated the property, claiming the movables for the Church and the inquisitor, and the realty for the fisc.

  28. Movables were presumed to be the property of the possessors, until positive evidence was produced to the contrary.

  29. A prescriptive title to movables was acquired by possession for one year, and to immovables by possession for two years.

  30. The "tenths and fifteenths" tax levied on income from movables or chattels became regular every year.

  31. The tax on movables was framed in a more systematic way.

  32. The company here, who have all a delicate taste of theatrical representations, had made a gathering to purchase the movables of the neighbouring playhouse,[426] for the encouragement of one which is setting up in the Haymarket.

  33. At the request of the king, who offered Gregory the bribe of a tenth on all movables throughout his kingdom, he set aside the choice of the chapter and nominated Richard Grant to the archbishopric.

  34. As Henry caused the lands of the Church, which had hitherto escaped taxation, to bear their share of scutage, so when, for the first time, he introduced a tax on movables the clergy were taxed equally with the laity.

  35. In short I could not help laughing, especially as the only two movables neglected were another little table with drawers and the money, and a writing box with the bank-notes, both in the same chamber where they made the first havoc.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "movables" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accessory; appanage; appendage; appointments; appurtenances; belongings; chattel; furniture; good; movables; paraphernalia; perquisite; possession; thing; things; trappings